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Fredrik Backman Books in Order

Fredrik Backman has written 13 books, published between 2012 and 2025. The first book is A Man Called Ove (2012) and the newest is My Friends (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
13
Published
2012–2025
Confirmed
13 of 13 titles
Pages on record
3,498 in 11 of 13 books
Reading time
58–87 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,498 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 11 of 13 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Fredrik Backman, author

Swedish author Fredrik Backman, born in 1981, also works as a blogger and columnist. A Man Called Ove (2012) opens his catalogue of 13 books, which runs to My Friends (2025). Other titles include My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry, Britt-Marie Was Here, Beartown, Us Against You, Anxious People and The Winners. His books were number one bestsellers in Sweden and have been published in more than twenty-five languages. Subjects include hockey teams, neighbours, friendship, and fathers and sons.

Fredrik Backman's novels, including A Man Called Ove and Anxious People, examine love, loss and human connection.

How many Fredrik Backman books are there?

Fredrik Backman has 13 books, released between 2012 and 2025. They include 2 separate series.

Fredrik Backman Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 13 Fredrik Backman books in the order they were released, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman, book 1 of the Fredrik Backman Standalone Novels series (2012)
  2. Cover of My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry / My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises by Fredrik Backman
  3. Cover of Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman, book 3 of the Fredrik Backman Standalone Novels series (2014)
  4. Cover of And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman (2015)
  5. Cover of Beartown / The Scandal by Fredrik Backman, book 1 of the Beartown series (2016)
  6. Cover of The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrik Backman, book 2 of the Fredrik Backman Short Stories/Novellas series (2017)
  7. Cover of Us Against You by Fredrik Backman, book 2 of the Beartown series (2017)
  8. Cover of Things My Son Needs to Know about the World by Fredrik Backman, book 1 of the Fredrik Backman Non-Fiction series
  9. Cover of Anxious People by Fredrik Backman, book 4 of the Fredrik Backman Standalone Novels series (2019)
  10. Cover of The Winners by Fredrik Backman, book 3 of the Beartown series (2021)
  11. Cover of My Friends by Fredrik Backman, book 5 of the Fredrik Backman Standalone Novels series (2025)
  1. 1
    A Man Called OveFredrik Backman Standalone Novels #12012 · 337 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2012337
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  2. 2
    My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry / My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and ApologisesFredrik Backman Standalone Novels #22013 · 372 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2013372
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  3. 3
    Britt-Marie Was HereFredrik Backman Standalone Novels #32014 · 324 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2014324
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  4. 4
    And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and LongerFredrik Backman Short Stories/Novellas #12015 · 76 pages · confirmed 4/4
    201576
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  5. 5
    Beartown / The ScandalBeartown #12016 · 432 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2016432
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  6. 6
    The Deal of a LifetimeFredrik Backman Short Stories/Novellas #22017 · 65 pages · confirmed 4/4
    201765
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  7. 7
    Us Against YouBeartown #22017 · 435 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2017435
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  8. 9
    Things My Son Needs to Know about the WorldFredrik Backman Non-Fiction #12019 · 221 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2019221
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  9. 10
    Anxious PeopleFredrik Backman Standalone Novels #42019 · 352 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2019352
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  10. 11
    The WinnersBeartown #32021 · 448 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2021448
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  11. 12
    The Answer Is NoFredrik Backman Short Stories/Novellas #32024 · confirmed 3/4
    2024–
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  12. 13
    My FriendsFredrik Backman Standalone Novels #52025 · 436 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2025436
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Fredrik Backman series in order

The series linked below has its own reading-order page.

Fredrik Backman books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Fredrik Backman Standalone Novels

5 books

5 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Fredrik Backman Short Stories/Novellas

3 books

3 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Fredrik Backman in order

1 book
  1. 1. The Deal of a Lifetime and Other Stories

Fredrik Backman Non-Fiction

1 book

1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Fredrik Backman Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Fredrik Backman books run from A Man Called Ove (2012) to My Friends (2025), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Fredrik Backman in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Fredrik Backman books in order?

You only need to read Fredrik Backman books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

What order should you read Fredrik Backman books in?

Read them in publication order, starting with Beartown / The Scandal (2016), the first Beartown book. The earliest catalogued title overall is A Man Called Ove (2012).

What is the newest Fredrik Backman book?

My Friends (2025) is the newest Fredrik Backman book released so far.

Is there a new Fredrik Backman book coming?

No next Fredrik Backman book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Awards Fredrik Backman has won

Wikidata records 1 award for Fredrik Backman. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Author of the Year2016Wonfor Beartown

Fredrik Backman at a glance

Still publishing
Fredrik Backman published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Fredrik Backman books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
3,498 pages across the 11 of 13 books with a recorded length, a median of 352 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Fredrik Backman books, 10 of 13, were published in the 2010s.
Corroboration
8 of the 13 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and every one of them in at least three.

What the Fredrik Backman books are about

10 of the 13 Fredrik Backman books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: sweden is tagged on 4 of 10. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.